The Dillon tribune., 1887-02-04

az To'hueNtcrs hall, WeInes !av evening.
was postponed till the Sth.
Beaverhead county stockmen are giving
all OF their time and attention to their stock.
1t is seldom one is seen in town.
There were IFS pupils in attendance a.
Grace NJ. L. Sunday school last Sunday.
1t was the largest attendance since the hol-
idays,
''lhc Red Acorn the serial story now
running in this paper is giving general
satisfaction. Each issue Of the paper is
sought with eagerness.
Tuesdays passenger train from the
soIth was preceded by the snow pow and
work train 1t required five engines to
pull the whole caravan.
1t has been proven BY actual experiments
that horse can live eleven days and a
COW nine without food, but that is poor !
consolation to stockmen.
1t seems queer time to mention build.
ing operations, but nevertheless, there is
considerable work now under way and
plenty more contemplated.
The eminent specialist, DR.. II. ]. Smith,
Of San Francisco, who has branch office
at Butte, ~ill visi: Dillon on February
13th. See his advertisement on the fourth
page.
The X. p. bali, to be held ON Washing
tons birthday, is bound to be social sue.
cess. The various committees are work
ing like beavers to make it the ball Of the
season.
The NJ. Z. Church sociablc will be held
at the residence OF Craig Cornell, about a
mile above town, this friday evening.
Conveyances will DC at the church, at :3o
! to take all who wish to go
Our Mongo|ian laundry,nan informs us
that the present Chinese year will have
thirteen months, and that this state Of al:
! fairs occurs sometimes every three and
sometimes every two years.
| Those desiring to take advantage of our
combination offer, which includes the n.
y. Wo,td aud the History Of the United
States, had best hurry, as the same wil' be
withdrawn at the end Of this month.
Superintendent Blickcnsderfer has had
an additional force Of one hundred men,
brought from the other end OF the road, as
sisting the regular section ,nen in keeping
the SNOW out oil the way in Beaver canyon.
!; The Bozeman Courier gets off the follow.
ing: \ Christian lady asked a Chinaman
If he did not think the church was produc.
tive Of good to him. "Yi, yi," said the
Mongolian, "me washec fol le whole con
gleglation."
NJ e.. Ray, civi! engineer Of the y n.
has large party Of surveyors at work al
Glen, changing the grade and ALIGNMENT
with a view to making a standard gauge Of
the Utah Il Northern, from Pocatello tc
Silver Bow, which it is thought, will be
accomplished sometime in July. Work
has been stopped in Big Hole canyon fol
the present.
Two industrious Dillon students, whe
have been busily engaged for several even
ings in committing to memory the Con
stitution Of the United States, stopped, wher
about half through their self.i'nposed task
An individual (whose name is withheld
otphearing them reciting to one another
forgetting for the time that there is a here
after, whispered "chcstnut!"
The Inter MonHtaiu thinks that kenne
dy, who was arrested and Jailed last week
charged with being an accomplicc Of Hard
ing's in the Glendale stage robbery an@
murder. may prove TO be the principal
and that Harding is a victim of circum
stances. Harding has all along c'aime<
that he is innocent. was not at the scene
the killing, and knows nothing about It,
Major Jim and Little Jim and ,hei
squaws, Maggie and Lucy, took in the tow'
tn. first Of the week They came from
: Sage creek, where they had been hunting
and had thirty or forty hams OF rcniso'
with them which the, were going to taxi
: to Butte to sell, but some rascal so, ava,
with the meat, Saturday night Jim wa
hunting for the sheriff, Sunday, and wa
i"all broke up
. Last Saturday, Januaty 10Th, heins TN
10th anniversary OF the birth "' lho'na
l. Paine, tho "?hilosopher. phi|anthror'st an'
patriot" was appropriately celebrated b!
his Dillon admirers, hv participating III
,u , ,,,>,,,. .r;v.n nv Mr. and Mrs. W